According to the article, it's done for market research, i.e. finding out who buys what, which is a thing businesses like to know. But also apparently it allows the machine to generate "AI-powered product recommendations", which i guess means it tailors reccomendations to each user? Which it can do because it has a touch screen, and the touch screen itself already strikes me as full of shit.

That's what the article says this machine in particular does; but yes, it could totally change the price on you depending on what you look like, and all other kinds of deeply shady things. You can count on a private company to do that kind of thing and then use their favorite argument: it's technically legal.

None of my family members know what a furry is and i'm keeping it that way.

i want a turn in a femboy sounds good

i would have never thought of this in 1000 years lol

I never knew that the stock drawing is based on an IRL stock photo

You don't understand, this batter was a lot saltier than the batter you're thinking of

Tons, and cinnamon, flour, and a little bit of salt. I find that the bread dilutes the flavor, so i overload the batter to compensate.

I don't like bland french toast

First thing i did, while my mouth was still salty from the first bite, is go get my sharpie.

Never again

There's a 1% chance that the weird cousin who never comes to family gatherings might be a furry. That's absolutely it.

The idea of having hobbies in common with family members seems alien to me - which i think, to quote the meme phrase, Says A Lot About Society.

The stereotype is just too perfect, you know? I'm sure there's a ton of furry hackers, but there's a lot more people who have heard of this stereotype and think it's funny.

I also think furry hackers would target the Repuclican National Convention or something

I did find a KazuK9 on Twitter, but i scrolled really far down their media tab and didn't see the tweet in this screenshot. Either they deleted it or it's an older meme. I did see a lot of furry femboy paws though.

Searching Faruk Kazuk with no other indication returned a lot of turkish-looking men.

Yeah, i should have known that something like that was happening but on the other hand the comments box should be greyed out or something

Ah yes, i knew i was being an idiot one way or the other

Thank you!

Also while we're here i'm noticing this, the & got lost somewhere on the way

Is there a bug report channel?

I don’t know where to start without a reference

You can put together what’s called a mood board: a collection of pictures that are relevant to the concept. This species, these clothes, here’s a few pictures that give off the right vibes, this is the sort of house that they would live in, this is what they would drive, here’s a fictional character or someone else’s fursona that kinda has the right esthetic, etc

Just spending time curating this collection is pretty satisfying on its own, but then you can show this moodboard to an artist when you get your first commission, and they'll have a decent idea. And that will be kinda the first visualization, and you can go from there.

This man needs to discover furries. Being walked on all fours is pretty weird even for furries, but he would definitely have some sympathy and less judgement than with normies.

I am gagging a little bit as i write this... There shouldn't be any cheese, not even a little bit. If there is, that's not normal.

hi

YouTube, Amazon, Allrecipes?

Some of those were around in floppy disk dimes, others not so much.

This negative space seems perfect to fill in with the environment, but i get a feeling OP doesn't like to draw environments. Relatable, but they're going to have to, especially if they want to sell a sci-fi setting.

My anthro awakening was Blacksad, but i circled around the furry fandom for years and years before joining last year.

Circa 2010 i was feverishly googling "tiger girl" looking for pictures of elvish girl in the forest with her pet tiger, you know, that kind of fantasy art; and i found some obscure forum where someone posted a furry drawing of a tiger girl, and someone commented 'can someone please draw a furry that isn't trying to be sexy', and i'm like 'what's a furry'

But even just that anecdote already hints at why i didn't join the fandom: there was less SFW furry content back then, and i was a lot more prudish. Both have changed since.

So, you know, on the list of things i could/should have done ten years ago, there's that.